Switching tactics, can you get to BIOS? Can you boot to something like Ubuntu with a USB key? The coffee and the boot issue might be coincidental. Remove the battery (see video) and see if you can start up with a brick.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 10:20, Tim Tisdall via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > So, my laptop won't turn on today and it's likely due to a coffee spill > that happened yesterday. I suspect a trace on the board may have become > corroded. I took it to the ASUS repair centre on Markham and the absolute > minimum cost to repair it would probably be $400 and if I want to keep > everything on my SSD I would need to remove it first (but I don't have the > necessary torx bits to do that). I think they only swap parts out and > don't attempt to actually repair. > > Does anyone know of a good and reputable repair place that would be able > to fix a corroded trace on the board if that's all it is? It's an Asus > Zenbook UX305C. > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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